, 1887-12-22

Mr. Alex Begg has just issued the
Seattle Business Guide and Gazette.
q neat and gotten up book of so
pages. In addition to its containing
a complete directory of the business
firms of the city, it contains much
that is descriptive of the resources of
King county and a detail of the pro-
gress of Seattle during the year. Mr.
Begg deserves great praise for his
efforts, and the Guide and the Ga
zette should receive large patro-
mage. 1t is the publishers intention
to issue it monthly hereafter.
The distinguished Boston tourist
writes home from aristocratic Hing
land, as follows: My uext appear
ance will be before the Prince of
Wales Ashton and l give him a
private exhibition; so you see | have
caught on all right-there are no
flies on me. L am after the long stuff
this time. and it will be some time
ere you see me again. l may be a
lord or duke when you see me again.
but Will stick to dear old Beantown
all the same; it is the home of his
lordship j. l.. S."
\ New York correspondent of the
Birmingham Post has been calling
attention to the prospect that in a
year or two :he United States may
lose entirely its trade with the Aus
tralian colonies" The present con
tract for the conveyance of Il portion
of the New Zealand and New South
Wales mails by way of San Francisco
does, it is quite true, expire at the
end of next year, and it Is not IN
reasonable to suppose that the Ca
nadians will take advantage of the
opportunity to establish steam COM
munication between British Columbia
and Australia.
The authorities of Pekin have re-
Gently taken a census of the empire,
and as it was for taNing purposes
the proneness to disbelieve in the
large estimates must be modified ae-
cordingly. The figures returned by
the village bailiffs make the popula-
ton BIG, 1888 800, which together with
the estimates of five provinces omit
ted makes the aggregate about 1872,
100000. Those figures are indepen-
dent of the population of Corea,
Thibet and kasgher. AS the popu-
latiOn of India exceeds 250.0O0,Ot @
the Hindoos and Chinese constitute
more than half the entire human
race.
Mrs. Mary Benn, of Laconner, has
sued Mrs. l.. A. Conner, Of Lacon
ner, for $4,000 damages for the
death of her husband, who was mur-
dereG in a building owned by said
Mrs Connor, and rented and u, ed as
a saloon. 1t will be remembered
that Laconnor adopted prohibition
at a special election held nearly two
years ago, since which time the var
ious saloons of that place have been
running without license. 1t was in
one of these saloons, which was run
ming in violation of the law, that
Mrs. Connor was the owner of the
building, Mrs. Benn seeks to recover
the sum aforesaid. The case came
up for trial at the last session of the
court and was continued.-PresS.
Mr.. Lamar's rank at the bar would
never have made him Il supreme
court Judge This is the testimony
of many who are familiar with bis
professional career, and who declare
that his actual legal experience has
been inconsiderable Mr.. Lamar's
still rebellious sentiments, as eXem-
plified by his angry denuneiation on
ly two years ago of those who dared
to call jefferson Davis "a traitor" do
not point to him as man to be in
trusted with the decision of matters
growing out of the late war, and his
responsibility for mississippi repu-
diation is not reassuring as TO the
stand he might take upon similar
questions. 1t remains to be seen
whether personal and social influence,
and senatorial goodfellowship, will
make his way to confirmation easy.
New York Tribune.
Senator Farwelrs bill to regulate
is the same that was
prepared several years ago by n
prominent German of Chicago, but it
needs one amendment. 1t now de-
mands that every immigrant must
exhibit IA certificate from the United
States consul for the port of clear
ance for said vessel, stating that the
said Immigrant Is not convict, pau
per, idiot or insane person, and that
he is possessed of sufficient means to
himself for period of six
To this should be added
tho exclusion of any person who is Il
chronic criminal, according to the
police records, or an anarchist; that
is a persen convicted of holding the
opinions expressed and enforced by
Herr Most and the Chicago bomb
Most and Lingg We're
both exiled because of such acts and
opinions, and no such immigrant
should be allowed to land in America.
The president has sent to the SEN
ate large number of nominations.
They were mostly all appointments
made during the recess, ond in most
cases the nominees are already III
office. Among the nominations are
the following: To be ENJOYS extra
and ministers plenipotenti-
airy of the United States: Oscar S.
of New York, to Turkey; A.
B. Lawton, of Georgia. to Austria
Hungary; B. W. Hamps, of Indiana
fo AryantiDa RepubIic To he min.
ister resident and consul general of
the United States. S. S. Carlisle. of
Louisiana, to Bolivia; to be consul
general of the United States, Jared
L. Kaihborne, of California, at Paris:
to be secretary of the legation and
consul general of the United States,
John D. Walker, of Texas, at Bogota;
q. b. GoCde, to be commissioner of
fisheries A number of minor con-
5ular nominations accompanied these
James g. Benedict as collector of
revenue for the district of